As Karunanidhi's son and former Union minister M.K. Alagiri dubbed his
brother's resignation as a drama, the 89-year-old DMK supremo retorted
that it is a long time since himself and the DMK have forgotten Alagiri.

Sources said adjusting Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's daughter-in-law
Harsimrat Kaur Badal may not be easy for Narendra Modi as party nominee Vinod
Khanna, who is also a former Union minister, is also eyeing a berth in the
Cabinet.

To restore the caste balance in the state, Shah convened booth
committees based on the principle that each committee will have a
pro-rata representation of the dominant castes from that particular
booth.

The handful of leaders, apart from Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, who will
be the face of the Congress in the new Lok Sabha are Kamal Nath,
Jyotiraditya Scindia, Veerappa Moily, Capt Amarinder Singh, Mallikarjun
Kharge and Shashi Tharoor.

The secretariat has made arrangements to provide accommodation for the new
MPs and six guide posts have been set up at the IGI airport and at the New
Delhi, Old Delhi and Nizamuddin railway stations to help the MPs.